10 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



15. Paracryptops weberi Pocock. 



Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1891, ser. 6, 7, p. 227. ' 

 Locality. — Flores : Maumerie.^ 



16. Paracryptops breviunguis Silvestri. 



Ann. Mus. civ. Geneva, 1894, 34, p. 629.i 

 Locality. — New Guinea.^ 



17. Theatops spinicaudus (Wood). 



Opisthemega s-pinicavda Wood, Journ. Acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1863, ser. 2, 5, p. 36. 

 Opistheviega insulare Meinert, Proc. Amer. philos. sec, 1886, 23, p. 209. ^ 



Locality. — Hawaiian Islands.^ 



This species is common in the southeastern United States. 



18. Otoctyptops melanostomus (Newport). 



Scolopocryptops melmiostoma Newport, Trans. Linn. soc. London, 1845, 19, 



p. 406. 

 Otocryptops luzonicus var. australis Haase, Abhandl. Mus. Dresden, 1887, 5, 



p. 98.1 

 Otocryptops luzonicus Silvestri, Ann. Mus. civ. Genova, 1894, 34, p. 633.^ 



Pocock, Weber's Reise, 1894, 3, p. 315.^ 

 Otocryptops aculeatus Attems, Abhandl. Senckenb. gesellsch., 1897, 23, p. 478.^ 

 Otocryptops luzonica Attems, Ibid., p. 479.^ 

 Otocryptops melanostomus Kraepehn, Revis. Scolop., 1903, p. 74.^ Attems, 



Zool. jahrb. Syst., 1914, 37, p. 380 '; Bijdr. dierk., 1915, 20, p. 4.^ 



Localities. — New Guinea:^' ^ Moroka,^ Zoutbron. Celebes.^' ^ 

 Gilolo.^ Hahnaheira: Soah Konorah."* Ceram: Honitetu.^ 



19. Otocryptops verdescens, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 1,943. Paratypes.— M. C. Z. 1,944. Fijis: 

 Nasoqo (W. M. Mann). 



Color dilute brown of a greenish tinge; head and caudal end of body 

 orange or light ferruginous. 



Head not margined. From ahcrrans it is at once distinguishable in 

 wholly lacking prosternal teeth, the anterior margin of prosternum 



